Author: Ernst Walet
Date: 11:18:35 02/27/05
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On February 27, 2005 at 08:09:04, Sandro Necchi wrote: MAJOR CUT >>OK, I can explain more what happened: > >the program part handling pieces exchange and pieces sacrifices was removed by >accident, so everytime the program was pondering moves involving that was >heavely handicapped or nearly blind. The deeper the program searched the bigger >the handicap was. >See the last game we lost to understand what we were facing and trying to avoid >in the openings...as you can see that was a major handicap. >In some games the handicap was (to me) of several hundreds of Elo points. In >other games more limited. > >Sandro > Hi Sandro, First, I sure hope that this rematch will happen, and that Hydra is not going the same way as Deep Blue has: beating strong grandmasters and then retire. Second, are you reffering to the game Shredder-Hydra when you talk about this "bug"? If so, can you give an example of a move where this is abvious? Kind regards, Ernst.
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